Culture Code at Dwarves

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1. Culture Code Dwarves Foundation © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
2. Agenda • Prologue • Our Purpose • Core Values • Culture Code © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
3. Prologue © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
4. Culture Defines Us • It's in our focus from the beginning • It’s our everything and made us what we are today • It defines what we will be in the future • It makes us stronger and more cohesive • Culture tells us what is permanent and original © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
5. Keep It Honest There is no such specific guide for culture code. So many of these handbook turn out to be ideal-case prescriptions rather than real- world descriptions. They cover all the ways people should act, not the ways they actually do. That’s a sham. Let’s not write a handbook like that. Let’s keep it honest. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
6. We Don’t Have Protecting Culture We believe the culture is defined by whom we hire, what we promote and encourage. It is dynamic, and it should expand like our business. We welcome its change as we want people to contribute to the new culture. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
7. Our Purpose © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
8. We Start With Purpose We’re aim to empower the next innovation. The long-term goal is to create an engine for innovation where new ideas happen, where we develop things & bring positive impacts to the world. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
9. We Start With Purpose We fully understand it requires a lot of hard work and commitment. Hopefully, doing what we are doing should help bring prosperity, make a meaningful living and enrich humankind. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
10. Core Values © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
11. Core Values • They are what we proud of • They help guide us when we are facing a difficult decision • They are what we do at Dwarves Foundation and how we do it. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
12. Core Values Our core values guide our strategies and individual actions so that we create a company whose character is as radical as our work. • Craftsmanship • Teamwork • Sustainable © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
13. Core Values Craftsmanship We work toward perfection in every single piece that we produce. We are proud of the well-crafted software that we develop together. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
14. Core Values Teamwork Teamwork is all about trust and collaboration. Having someone in the team mean we can rely on this person. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
15. Core Values Sustainable We do not believe in rushing for project and working overtime. We believe in working sustainably and balanced so that we are a happy bunch of sane workers. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
16. Culture Code © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
17. People - Work - Engineering Culture - Toward Future © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
18. A few other things that we observed over the last few years: • No asshole rules: no matter how great a candidate may be, being an asshole is an automatic deal-breaker. • False Positives are ok. False Negatives are not: we prefer to not have you in the team rather than letting a wrong person affect the others. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
19. People It All Started With People We human are the cause of any consequences. That's our point of view. Live your value with the Dwarves. You are encouraged to contribute your knowledge and value to the team. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
20. People - It All Started With People • You are the manager of yourself. • Things you produce add up to our value. • Your action in front of others represents our image. • Your belief impacts team culture. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
21. People - It All Started With People © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
22. People Team > I The only way to make the boat go fast is perfect teamwork and synchronization. The skillset is essential, but it isn't as important as vision and coordination. The 'I' must be unselfish and think about the team first. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
23. People - Team > I No one is perfect; everyone has something that they could improve upon, including yourself. So, be supportive. Offer constructive criticism. Listen, listen, listen. "Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't." — Bill Nye © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
24. People - Team > I We effectively have an environment in which competition and collaboration co- exist. Even if you work harder than anyone else, if you lose synchronization, you slow the boat down. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
25. People It's Not About You It's not about the CEO, the core team or anyone. We are here because they want to join forces to accomplish the mission of craftsmanship in software engineering. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
26. People - It's Not About You We work together as a team for a greater good. As soon as it becomes about the individual, things begin to fall apart. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
27. People Like-minded People We started this team with a purpose. It's an innovation powering. We want to make this place an environment where engineers can spend their time working with disruptive startups and be cool at the same time. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
28. People - Like-minded People We always look for like-minded people. • Possesses the same vision, DNA and same synergy. • Distinctive, different, can see things in their bare form • Optimistic about the future © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
29. People Unique Value We hire for the unique value. This is what you could bring to the table. This is what makes you different from other team members. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
30. People - Unique Value The difference can be anything. The way of thinking. The vision of technology. The methodology of operations. Presentation skills. Communication skills. Leadership. The speed of prototyping. Emotional understanding of others. Anything. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
31. People - Unique Value We must be an organization where those specialities are well respected and leveraged, rather than having stereotyped technical skill evaluations like school exams. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
32. People EQ is Underrated We have seen so many cases where smart engineers with high IQ failed while some others yield positive results. Most of the time, it is communication. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
33. People - EQ is Underrated It's our job to convince and recommend solution. Features, tasks and bugs live in one side of a coin where technical matters and solution are already identified. Train your mind to be able to see the real big picture. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
34. People You Are What You Do People see you through your action, not talks. Be a doer. We craft software and stuff. We want to bring positive impact to the world through software. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
35. People - You Are What You Do The culture we are pursuing is the combination between the unconventional spirit and the will to do the right things in every piece of our decision. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
36. Work Remote Working We feel no need to manage your chair. We have better things to do than to track you down to every single minute. Meetings are for decision making. Ideas and planning should be conducted personally. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
37. Work - Remote Working Flexible working time allows you to start and end thing at whenever you feel like it, which is why we want the Dwarves to know exactly • What needs to be done • What's left to clean up © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
38. Work - Remote Working It doesn't matter if it happens in the kitchen, or on your way to the beach. Work happens when you are ready, and we want you to manage it at your own terms. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
39. Work Around the Clock We work for the future of ourselves and the future of this team. We care about the quality of the work we produce rather than the number of hours worked. We do not have a specific start time or time to leave the office. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
40. Work - Around the Clock The Dwarves are working in a different timezone. We stay in touch around the clock. The Dwarves are around when you need them. Just don't try to take advantage of someone's balance. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
41. Work Toward Automation All the techniques we applied, all the new technologies we learned at Dwarves Foundation help to save time and make automation easier. If there is anything happened more than 3 times and a dozen more in the future, we find a way to automate it. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
42. Work - Toward Automation Having the engineering power aside, if we know how to use them efficiently, we can utilize them for most of our tedious work and focus on things that matter. Try not to repeat yourself. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
43. Work 70/50 The Dwarvish magic is purely technological know-how. The Dwarves often spend their free-time on hobby projects or new technology. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
44. Work - 70/50 © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
45. Work - 70/50 The total of 120% is our commitment. The extra 20% is what we invest in our internal competency, which later will be rewarded when our outcome hits the market or bring values to the customers. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
46. Work Purpose Driven • It's all about the result • Every action or decision must bring us closer to the goal. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
47. Work - Purpose Driven Transparency and detailed planning/report help. • Remove meaningless meetings • Make the development progress as transparent as possible • Be a team player over "task worker". • Open discussion and alternative recommendation instead of rejection over customer's requests © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
48. Work How We Do Business In working with others, we don't look for business, we look for partnership. We value lifetime partners. A deal could come and go, the market could come and go, but trusted clients will stay. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
49. Work - How We Do Business Same as networking and collaboration, doing business is about giving, not taking. We tend to pay upfront in many cases, we give what we have before asking anything back. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
50. Work - How We Do Business © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
51. Work Delegators are Dead-weight Everybody works. With a small team, you need people who are going to do work, not delegate work. Everyone's got to be producing. No one can be above the work. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
52. Work - Delegators are Dead-weight Avoid hiring delegators, those people who love telling others what to do. Delegators are dead weight for a small team. They clog the pipes for others by coming up with busywork. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
53. Work - Delegators are Dead-weight Delegators love to pull people into meetings, too. In fact, meetings are a delegator's best friend. That's where he gets to seem important. Meanwhile, everyone else who attends is pulled away from getting real work done. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
54. Work - Delegators are Dead-weight © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
55. Work Effective over Productive • Productive is about occupying your time—filling your schedule to the brim and getting as much done as you can. • Effective is about finding more of your time unoccupied and open for other things besides work. We don't believe in busyness. We believe in effectiveness. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
56. Work - Effective over Productive We always try to work on things what create the most value possible. Between signal & noise, we always try to pick the signal and waive the noise. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
57. Work - Effective over Productive Know your priority and do things that matter. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
58. Engineering Culture We build a company where software engineering could shine, innovative products are shipped and change the world for the better. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
59. Engineering Culture Engineering Discipline Software engineering is an engineering discipline that's applied to the development of software in a systematic approach. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
60. Engineering Culture Not a Replacable Cog Software is more of artisanship, and software engineers aren't a replaceable cog. Don't believe the one-size-fits-all interview. These serve to grind away the individuality and make us feel like an assembly line worker. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
61. Engineering Culture The Best Idea Wins • If you have a great idea and the will to make it work, you can create great changes. • Nothing is off-limits • All voices are equal here © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
62. Engineering Culture - The Best Idea Wins If your idea makes the most sense, that's what we'll do, regardless of your role or seniority. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
63. Engineering Culture Lean Approach Lean philosophy regards everything, not adding values to the customer as waste. In order to eliminate waste, one should be able to recognize it. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
64. Engineering Culture - Lean Approach • Rework, or unnecessarily complex solutions are waste. • Waiting for other activities, teams, processes is waste. • Managerial overhead not producing real values is waste. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
65. Engineering Culture - Lean Approach • A fulfilled goal matters more than approaches and processes • Fancy tools and cumbersome procedures are likely to bring more problems than helping us moving forward. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
66. Engineering Culture - Lean Approach During work, always remember that you are the manager of one. You should be aware of what is success and what is the priority of a specific period. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
67. Engineering Culture - Lean Approach Favour boring solutions and legacy tooling for real benefits over shiny, over- hyped new toys .eg "Hacker News trending", "10k Github stars in X days" or "faster than Y framework". Be practical, don't waste time and effort on uncertainties. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
68. Engineering Culture Think Long-term Every action could create a continuous pair of cause and effect. When we make any decision, we follow a shared framework among the Dwarves. It's not about you, it's about the majority. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
69. Engineering Culture - Think Long-term Every decision we make today can lead to an impact in the future. • The technology we endorse, the solution we choose to solve the problem • The founder we backed, the startup we invest into • The people we work with, the way we treat the client • How we talk about ourselves, the attitude toward peers. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
70. Engineering Culture - Think Long-term We grant everyone at Dwarves the rights to make a decision as long as it benefits the whole in the long run, rather than the individual or a blink of an eye. It is the balance of one who walks a tightrope. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
71. Toward the Future © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
72. Toward the Future Thought on Software Software impacts the world every day. It helps make life convenient in current era and in the days ahead. Tech industry is the destination and interference zone between sectors. It's the tunnel to the future, which is full of excitement and dynamic. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
73. Toward the Future - Thought on Software So as an ambitious team, our vision is to co-create the future together with startups and makers. © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
74. Toward the Future - Thought on Software © Dwarves Foundation, 2020
75. Thank You © Dwarves Foundation, 2020